Another long blog

I've had a great week here in Oviedo. Starting off from where I left off last, wednesday. Wednesday I of course went to school, which felt so long because we were all pretty ready for the weekend. During class we found out we would be having an exam. Great. So after the day was finally over, we went our separate ways and I went home to lunch. We had fish, my favorite, salad, which my host mom finally realized that I hate onions and tomatoes, and potatoes. Pretty great meal not gonna lie. You know, I keep forgetting to see if they have ranch here. I'm shocked I'm surviving without it. Anyways after my friend Douk and I went to the city. First we went to a printing shop, and then he wanted to get a new camera. Boy was that an adventure. The cameras were about the same in Spanish but they had changed places since the time before. I also grabbed some almonds and we were on our way. Next I went and got some postcards and found a couple cool souvenirs and what not. Next I went home and had rice with an egg and tomato sauce. yum. After dinner we talked a little but I needed to study. So I went in my room and studied....Facebook. Lol. I should of studied more but I didn't. Next day. Test. I go in and see how confident everyone else felt, and that worried me even more. The test was pretty easy and I think I did better then I thought! Whoo! After the test I went back home, and had lunch with my host mom, and then met with some people to go through the museum at the cathedral. This museum was so awesome. Not only were there tons of old artifacts and pictures, it it was a lot bigger then I thought it was going to be. My favorite part was the crosses. They were so unique and historic. The next day, which was Friday we went to a city called Llanes. Llanes was unbelievable. First we walked over to this dock and along side the do k were these huge cubes, all painted very uniquely and each one special in its own way. They were awesome. Next we went to find this awesome building off in the distance. We walked around everywhere to find this place. We ended up seeing this really old house that looked like it could of been from the movie the women in black. It was really creepy! After that we finally found this building that turned out to be a church. It looks just like a castle though. It was sooo pretty inside and out. After that went set out to find the tourist office to get a map. The holding also looked like a castle lol. After that we found the beach. The first beach was amazingly pretty and I am still in aw about how much I loved the beach. It was very secluded and not touristy. We laid here for a while and kind of just watched the ocean. The water was really cold but really clear. I was in aw. Next we went and got some ice cream. I got turròn, a flavor only found in Asturias, and has a nutty taste to it. Yum. Afterwords we went and found the other beach. This one was also very pretty. If you walked up this hill you would see the city plus the ocean. There was even a little square where it looked like you could get married, and I think that's where I'll eventually get married lol. After this we went to the bus station and were there about an hour early. Currently in Asturias there have been a ton of bus cancelations because of a strike. So we waited for our bus. Recap. We left for Llanes at about a quarter til 8 in the morning, and our bus home was at 9:15pm. Around 8:40pm the guy at the station came up to us and told us that there was no more buses for Oviedo today. We showed him our ticket and he went and talked to the other guy and said that there indeed was another. We decided to go wait by the bus but before we did a girl in our group wanted to use the bathroom first. While she is in the bathroom, we see the bus, that was supposedly ours, drive away!! That was the last bus and we missed it. Oviedo is about an hour and a half away from Oviedo, so it's pretty expensive. We started to freak and didn't know what to do. We look at our ticket and indeed it says 8:45. The man that told us that there was a bus came over and looked at our ticket. He said no no and said 8:45 es en la mañana, and flipped over our first ticket and we see the second one...that said 9:15....wow...did we feel stupid. Haha but it made for a great story. The next day we went to a Japanese restaurant. It was great! Not the best food ever but not horrible!! Later we went to a play called Yurma which was about a women who wanted to have kids but couldn't so she tries all these things to be able to have kids. In the end a lady told her the reason why was probably because of her husband, so she kills him. A very interesting play and is one that is well known in Oviedo. Then on Sunday we went to Gijon and walked around and relaxed at the beach. All in all, a great weekend. Now since I'm behind on my blog, I'm going to need to speed through the rest. This past week was pretty normal but let me give ya some highlights. Monday we played cards. And pretty much everyday. On Thursday we went into the museum above the cathedral and we had a homeless man follow us. Sooo weird. And scary. Then we watched the game, which was fun. Spain dominated! Woot! Then Friday I went to a bar and talked to a bunch of spainiards which was sooo awesome, they were in the process if learning English so I would talk in Spanish and they would respond in English. It was awesome. Then on Saturday I went on a canoe ride. This was sooo amazingly fun. I went down with my good ol buddy Douk. We were ahead of the crowd and were first to lunch, a fun interesting lunch that was...just interesting. After lunch we got back in the canoe and pressed on. We see some rapids ahead of us and I said that we should probably go around, but Douk thought otherwise. We went over the rapids and sure enough Douk fell out and filled our boat with water. I paddled our boat to the side and we after several attempts got the water out. There was also a fish in our boat, which was sooo funny. After getting stuck like five more times, Douk throwing his paddle out of the boat, and a lot of paddling we made it. It was a fun day. Went out that night. Then yesterday we went to the beach. Spain is amazing and I'm so sad that this is my last week.